The Golden Goggle Awards are USA Swimming’s yearly awards gala, and they’ll happen tonight in New York City. You can follow along on the USA Swimming website, which will livestream the event. Follow the link here.

Nugent is the front-runner to replace Thompson when the position officially opens for candidates next week, and is currently the head of the youth program. Nugent has said that he will call Trickett and ask her about her interest in returning to swimming, and Trickett has said she will make a return.

Removing reporting hat, replacing with speculation hat

This latest development makes me wonder whether there might have been some tension between Trickett and Thompson that caused her premature retirement. At the age of 25, Trickett clearly still has something left to offer the sport, considering she won 4 medals (including 2 golds) and narrowly missed a 5th at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Or perhaps she simply clicks well with Nugent, as Nugent led the senior team to it’s most successful medal haul since 1956 at the 2004 Athens Olympics before returning to his post as youth team coach. The 2004 Olympics were Trickett’s first, and where she won her first gold medal.

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder of SwimSwam.com.
He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming.
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